# @hyperallergic on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-06-28T15:36:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

## Caption

In 1970, one year after the legendary first brick shattered the windows of the Stonewall Inn, thousands took to the streets of Lower Manhattan to participate in the Christopher Street Liberation Day March — an event that would later be remembered as the inaugural annual New York City Pride March. 

After Stonewall, many young activists began discussing replacing the Reminder Day protests with an annual demonstration to commemorate the uprising. Several of these conversations were spearheaded by Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop owner Craig Rodwell and members of the nascent Gay Liberation Front (GLF), a group that proudly reclaimed queer identifying terms.

In late 1969, at the annual Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations, Rodwell and Ellen Broidy of New York University’s Student Homophile League proposed holding a demonstration on the last weekend in June to honor the liberation of Stonewall and Christopher Street. Following a majority vote in favor, the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee was formed with the purpose of planning the march.

The celebration of Pride has evolved in the years since that first march, especially as the queer rights movement gained momentum through events like the 1979 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights and AIDS advocacy throughout the 1980s and ’90s. 

Read the full story by mayapontone at the link in bio.
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1 - Gay Activists Alliance and Vito Russo marching in the first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade (© Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library; detail of photo by Kay Tobin) 

3 - Representatives of the Buffalo Radical Lesbians at the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day March in 1971 (detail of photo by Yigal Mann/Pix/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images) 

4 - New York City Pride in 1989 on the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion (detail of photograph by Joseph T. Barna via Flickr) 

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